CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1   Background to the Study

Socialisation is a very important part of a child’s development as it is through social development that the child learns about himself in relation to other people. So that he understands how to reconcile his selfish urges with the needs of society which always comes first. This is as the needs of society aims at a total preservation of the entire community and it’s mutual development and survival. While the individual’s yearning sometimes runs counterintuitive to that and can be self destructive for the individual and by extension the society. An easy case is that of drug abuse which clearly harms just the individual directly but on a wider outlook it is the society generally who runs at a loss. This is why social development of an individual begins from childhood and at family level before the child is incorporated into the society through it’s indoctrinating machineries like school, church, etc.

In every society, socialization of the child always already begins with the mother. It is she who  indoctrinates, both consciously and unconsciously, the child in the acceptable norms of the society. The father merely stands as a corrective figure of authority who punishes wrongdoing. However it is the woman who also makes the child understand the repercussions of his action and inactions in each cases.

1.2   Statement of the Problem

Any case made for socialisation practically is always often in the hindsight when the child turns out not very well indoctrinated and so adds against societal structures. And whenever the argument is in this posture the question that follows is often which of the machineries of social development is to blame and we always are predisposed to going back to the beginnings. The research effort which has gone into this work is propelled by the question of the role of women generally in the social development of the child with Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state as a case study.

1.3   Research Questions

The questions that has guided this research work include:

1.3.1      what are the machineries of social development.

1.3.2      What are the factors and processes of social development.

1.3.3      What are the roles of women in the social development of the child.

1.3.4      Why are their roles very important in the overall development of the child socially.

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